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Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also the brightest.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Delores Phillips
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 390
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Phillips, Delores, Boyars Publishers, Ltd., Marion
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781664465046
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